Another future
Subtitle: poetry and art in a postmodern twilight
By: Alan Gilbert.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780819567833; 9780819567840
Subjects: Postmodernism; Arts and society; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Poetry, Modern
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-247) and index.
Table of contents: title: The present versus (the) now; title: Sound mappings: free103point9's Constructive engagement; title: Anne Waldman changing the frequency; title: The information of art: a Martha Rosler retrospective; title: Fade to black: Kevin Killian's Argento series; title: The costs of style: Harryette Mullen and Freestyle; title: Walid Raad's documentary palimpsest; title: Adding up to plural: on the work of Roberto Tejada; title: Poetry as document, or, the Y2K problem is the illusion of starting at zero; title: Re:reading the active reader theory; title: Poetic ethnography: Mark Nowak's Revenants; title: "There's no center where /similarity would begin": C. S. Giscombe's Giscome Road and Here; title: A global view: Andreas Gursky at Matthew Marks Gallery; title: Ghost stories: Renee Gladman's Juice; title: Poetry and reportage: Andrew Schelling's The road to Ocosingo; title: What are the alternatives? Lorenzo Thomas's Extraordinary measures, for example; title: "Startling and effective": writing art and politics after 9 /11; title: Countercultural studies: Edward Sanders's 1968: a history in verse; title: Shine a dark light on it: Benjamin Friedlander's A knot is not a tangle; title: Picking up the diasporic pieces: Keith Piper at the New Museum; title: "How soon is now?": Anselm Berrigan, Prageeta Sharma, Greg Fuchs, Magdalena Zurawski, and the new independents; title: Building locations: recent work by Ben Polsky; title: Musical chairs in public spaces: Brenda Coultas's The Bowery Project.